Update on Syria revolution -The other side of the coin ignored by the main stream news

Cleaning up Max Blumenthal leftovers by @_alhamra

At the “Syria and the Left” panel co-hosted by Verso Books and Muftah, panelist Max Blumenthal called for ending arms shipments to anti-Assad rebels as a means of de-escalating a war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Syrians.

Disarming one side in a war is not a recipe for de-escalation but a formula for shifting the balance of power between the warring parties to the disadvantage of the disarmed side. But calling for an end to the rebel arms supply has a major political upside for Blumenthal — it allows him to posture as an advocate of peace while pushing a policy that would lead to more killing of Syrian civilians and the creation of more Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons.